Morning Buzz: McCarthy not feeling heat

Green Bay head coach Mike McCarty watches in frustration during the Green Bay Packers 47-25 loss to the Tennessee Titans during the NFL football game at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, Sunday, November 13, 2016.(Photo: Rick Wood/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis)

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It’s hard to start anywhere other than Mike McCarthy’s nearly defiant news conference Monday. If fans were expecting big changes or sweeping proclamations from the Packers' head coach, they didn’t get them. Instead, they got a resoundingly confident coach who feels his team is only a few plays away and that his message hasn’t gotten stale.

McCarthy has fought off failure at every turn in his professional career. Even the team’s Super Bowl season of 2010 looked to be a disaster until his quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, began playing lights out and galvanized the rest of the team around him.

McCarthy has had nothing but postseason disappointment since then, falling on the final possession in three of five elimination games since the Super Bowl XLV victory. His team has endured massive amounts of injuries and lost three in a row in three of the last four seasons.

Just as McCarthy is feeling the heat, so is defensive coordinator Dom Capers, whose unit has been as culpable as any in the last four losses. The disintegration reached shocking proportions Sunday as the Titans scored touchdowns on their first four possessions and five of their first six.

There were blown coverages, gaping holes, missed tackles and absentee pass rushers. The Titans were ranked 22nd in passing offense and yet quarterback Marcus Mariota completed 19 of 26 passes for 295 yards and four touchdowns.

If you’re Capers, who has been a target of disgruntled fans every season since the Super Bowl, the pressure inside the meetings rooms has to be enormous.

Well, at least the Packers didn’t embarrass themselves like coach Forrest Gregg’s team did in a 55-24 pasting from coach Bill Parcells’ Super Bowl-bound club.

John Hilton, the Packers’ special teams coach, turned toward the Giants’ coaches in the press box late in the game and flipped them the bird. His obscene gesture lasted for several seconds.

Hilton was angry because he thought the Giants were rubbing it in on a fourth-down decision. Parcells denied it.

Anyway, neither Mike McCarthy nor anyone on his coaching staff made a spectacle of himself in the 47-25 upset loss against the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. However, this was a comedy of errors as was the Packers’ showing in the Meadowlands 30 years ago.